This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ravb: Remove Rx overflow log messages

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: ravb-remove-rx-overflow-log-messages.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Wed Dec 6 16:43:17 CET 2017

From: Kazuya Mizuguchi kazuya.mizuguchi.ks@renesas.com Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 13:21:06 +0100 Subject: ravb: Remove Rx overflow log messages

From: Kazuya Mizuguchi kazuya.mizuguchi.ks@renesas.com

[ Upstream commit 18a3ed59d09cf81a6447aadf6931bf0c9ffec5e0 ]

Remove Rx overflow log messages as in an environment where logging results in network traffic logging may cause further overflows.

Fixes: c156633f1353 ("Renesas Ethernet AVB driver proper") Signed-off-by: Kazuya Mizuguchi kazuya.mizuguchi.ks@renesas.com [simon: reworked changelog] Signed-off-by: Simon Horman horms+renesas@verge.net.au Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c | 8 ++------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c @@ -831,14 +831,10 @@ static int ravb_poll(struct napi_struct /* Receive error message handling */ priv->rx_over_errors = priv->stats[RAVB_BE].rx_over_errors; priv->rx_over_errors += priv->stats[RAVB_NC].rx_over_errors; - if (priv->rx_over_errors != ndev->stats.rx_over_errors) { + if (priv->rx_over_errors != ndev->stats.rx_over_errors) ndev->stats.rx_over_errors = priv->rx_over_errors; - netif_err(priv, rx_err, ndev, "Receive Descriptor Empty\n"); - } - if (priv->rx_fifo_errors != ndev->stats.rx_fifo_errors) { + if (priv->rx_fifo_errors != ndev->stats.rx_fifo_errors) ndev->stats.rx_fifo_errors = priv->rx_fifo_errors; - netif_err(priv, rx_err, ndev, "Receive FIFO Overflow\n"); - } out: return budget - quota; }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kazuya.mizuguchi.ks@renesas.com are

queue-4.4/ravb-remove-rx-overflow-log-messages.patch